GNOME(1)GNOME(1)NAMEgnome-terminal - Terminal emulator for GNOME
SYNOPSISgnome-terminal [--tclass CLASS_NAME] [--font FONT_NAME]
[--nologin] [--login] [--geometry GEOMETRY] [--command
CMD] [--execute CMD] [--foreground COLOR] [--background
COLOR] [--utmp] [--noutmp] [--wtmp] [--nowtmp] [--title]
[--termname NAME] [--start-factory-server] [--use-factory]
[--pixmap FILENAME] [--bgscroll] [--bgnoscroll] [--shaded]
[--noshaded] [--transparent] [--lastlog] [--nolastlog]
[--icon FNAME]
DESCRIPTIONgnome-terminal is a terminal emulator program that is part
of the GNOME project. It provides access to the Unix
shell on the GNOME environment. It emulates the DEC VT
terminals as supported by the xterm(1) program from the X
distribution.
gnome-terminal supports colour display (see the section on
environment variables for details) and provides mouse sup
port to applications that are aware of mouse events for
xterm-like terminals.
EMULATION
The GNOME terminal program (gnome-terminal) is designed to
emulate the 'xterm' program provided by the X Consortium.
The xterm(1) program in turn is an almost-complete emula
tion of the DEC VT102 terminal.
The GNOME terminal program supports the same extensions to
the VT102 that the xterm program provides, through special
escape sequences. The xterm program is an evolving pro
gram. Recent changes to xterm have been been incorporated
into gnome-terminal. This includes emulation of the newer
DEC VT220 escape sequences.
CLASSES
The GNOME terminal allows you to have different configura
tion profiles to suit different uses (different background
colours, presence, absence or position of scrollbars, and
so on). To set these up, you invoke the preferences dia
logue box from the settings menu of gnome-terminal. Select
the options you prefer (these changes will be made to your
currently-open terminal, so you can see what they look
like), and before closing the preferences box, make sure
you have put a new name in the space marked "Terminal
Class".
To activate a specific class at program startup you can
use the --tclass command line option
GNOME Terminal Factories.
It is possible to start a single instance of the GNOME
terminal program, and yet have multiple windows open at
the same time. The easiest way of achieving this is by
selecting "File" and then "New terminal" from the menu.
But it is also possible to programatically instruct GNOME
Terminal to reuse an existing running instance of GNOME
Terminal.
By defaul the GNOME desktop ships with settings that allow
terminals to share a single process, hence reducing memory
usage. This is achieved by registering GNOME with the
CORBA gnome-name-service and using the --start-factory and
the --use-factory options.
OPTIONS--tclass CLASS_NAME
Makes Gnome Terminal uses the configuration values
for the terminal class specified in CLASS_NAME
(for example, I use --tclass red for root termi
nals). You can define new classes through the
Preferences dialog.
--font FONT_NAME
Specifies the font to be used to display text in
the Gnome Terminal.
--nologin
This option indicates that the shell started by
Gnome Terminal should not be a login shell but a
regular shell.
--login This option indicates that the shell started by
Gnome Terminal should be a login shell (this trick
is cleverly achieved in the Unix world by running
the shell but telling the shell that its name has
a dash in the front. Very clever).
--geometry GEOMETRY
Specifies the startup geometry for the terminal.
--command CMD, -e CMD
Executes the command CMD instead of the shell.
This saves some memory if you are just planning on
running a dedicated application on that window.
For example, you could run the `minicom' terminal
emulator on the window like this:
gnome-terminal--command minicom
or for example, if you want to monitor your sys
tem:
gnome-terminal--command top
--execute CMD, -x CMD
This flag is here for compatibility reasons. It
is the same as --command.
--foreground COLOR
Specifies the color to be used for the foreground
of the terminal.
--background COLOR
Specifies the color to be used for the background
of the terminal.
--utmp Updates the Unix Login entry (The UTMP file, this
is the default), this registers the GNOME terminal
instance with the list of users that are logged
into the system (so you will be visible with the
`who' command).
--noutmp
Requests GNOME Terminal to not update the login
records. This means that the user will not show
up in the output of the `who' Unix command.
--wtmp Requests that this session will be logged into the
system records for users that have logged into
the system. This is different from `utmp' because
this keeps track of who logged in and logged out
of the system, independently of whether it shows
up in the list of users.
--nowtmp
Requests that the session be not logged into the
system records.
--title TITLE, -t TITLE
Sets the title for the GNOME terminal to be TITLE.
--termname NAME
Specifies the terminal name that should be put in
the environment variable TERM. It is not advised
that you use this flag, but you might want to use
it for some bizarre cases.
--start-factory-server
Tells GNOME Terminal that it should start the fac
tory server. This will provide a terminal server
that later other GNOME terminals can contact (this
saves memory, as a single process is ran, and mul
tiple GNOME terminals windows can be managed by
the same process).
--use-factory
This tells GNOME terminal that it should try to
contact an existing GNOME Terminal factory to min
imize memory use.
--pixmap FILENAME
Specifies the image filename to be used as the
background for this terminal.
--bgscroll
Specifies that the background image should scroll
together with the text as the screen scrools.
--bgnoscroll
Specifies that the background image should not
scroll when the text scrolls in the terminal.
--shaded
Requests that the background image be shaded (for
used with --transparent and --pixmap).
--noshaded
Requests that the background remain untouched (no
shading be applied). --transparent Requests that
the terminal should run in "transparent" mode,
making the background of the terminal be the back
ground of your root window. --icon FNAME Speci
fies the filename that contains the icon that
would be used for your terminal (if your window
manager supports the icon hints).
AUTHORS
Michael Zucchi is the wizard behind the Zvt widget which
implements the terminal. Miguel de Icaza and Erik Troan
implemented the user interface elements for the gnome-ter
minal program.
MAINTAINER
You can contact the maintainer of this code by mailing
miguel@ximian.com. The maintainer for Zvt is
notzed@ximian.com
SEE ALSOgnome-session(1)BUGS
Please report bugs in this program in the GNOME bug track
ing system at http://bugzilla.gnome.org
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